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Peter Robinson | 1 Nov 2009 18:12
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Current GPL compliance of Fortinet?

Hi All,

The company I work for uses a number of Fortinet devices. I sent off a
letter as described in in their code request page back in April. I've
since tried to contact them via their contacts page and have received
no response. It seems that gpl-violations.org originally bought the
case [2] against Fortinet so I just thought I would let you know that
there may be issues again.

Cheers,
Peter

[1] http://www.fortinet.com/press_releases/gpl.html
[2] http://www.fortinet.com/press_releases/050425_gpl.html
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andrew | 11 Nov 2009 13:21

AzBox (PVR) kernel sources

I've bought an AzBox set top box from goldwafers.com.  There was no
documentation (printed or on disk) with the device.  The box is fairly
open - you can enable telnet or ssh from the user interface and get a root
shell on the box.  From here it is fairly easy to look at what software is
on the box.

I emailed info <at> azbox.com to ask if sources were available and was directed
to http://www.azbox.com/forum (requires registration to see anything). 
From there it is possible to download the sigma toolchain and build
scripts (I'm not sure that the correct configuration files are available
and its very badly packaged).  The build scripts download source from an
ftp site to build a simple userland.

I've made a request for kernel sources in the forum and have not received
any response.  I'm not sure what to do now, I imagine that OpenSAT (STB
manufacturer) don't really have any objections to releasing the source -
the product is fairly easy to modify by design, however I believe Sigma
Designs (chip manufacturer, owner of drivers etc) are likely to cause them
trouble.

Any suggestions where to go from here?  Any questions?
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Anton Hofmann | 25 Nov 2009 14:56
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Possible GPL violation by Acronis Inc.


Hello all,

some days ago i found a imaging backup solution from Acronis Inc. (www.acronis.com) which includes a
special rescue system to boot from a CD, Acronis TrueImage (Home/Netbook/Workstation...what ever..).
I've never used that rescue system until 6 weeks ago.

The Rescue System uses busybox v1.13.4 (as given in the console) with dhclient, samba-client and
some other stuff...
I checked the supplied documentation and the wrapping of that product but i cant find any hints
regarding the GPL/LGPL so i've examined there homepage and i found this licensing part:

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Licensing information

Acronis has the following GPL/LGPL sources used in our products:

    * Linux software (used on the rescue media); the GPL license.
    * Fox (a graphical library, used in all our products); the LGPL license.
    * "Mouse" driver (a DOS driver used by Acronis OS Selector); the GPL license.
    * UPX (The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables); the UPX License Agreement.

If you want to receive the appropriate source code for the software listed above, please submit a
request to Acronis Technical Support.
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http://www.acronis.com/support/licensing/

This licensing info is also pretty good hidden, i just found it via the search term GPL in the
search window.
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